{"id":793957,"date":"2026-07-11T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793957\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:44:11","slug":"afl-news-2026-zak-butters-ankle-injury-video-port-adelaide-lose-to-st-kilda-marvel-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793957\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL News 2026: Zak Butters ankle injury video, Port Adelaide lose to St Kilda Marvel Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zak Butters<\/a> may have played his final game for Port Adelaide<\/a> after the gun forward went down with an ankle injury in the game against St Kilda<\/a> on Saturday. <\/p>\n

The incident occurred late in the third term at Marvel Stadium after Butters attempted a spoil on St Kilda\u2019s Max Hall and the 25-year-old landed awkwardly. <\/p>\n

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Zak Butters limped off the field. \u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

His right ankle got caught and trapped under Hall\u2019s body and twisted beneath his after they came down from the aerial contest.<\/p>\n

Butters immediately clutched at his ankle in agony and had to be assisted from the arena by trainers, unable to bear any weight.<\/p>\n

\u201cSickening sight, he\u2019s on the interchange now, he\u2019s got the boot and sock off – he was in real trouble coming from the ground,\u201d Dixon said on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n

\u201cA huge story \u2026 he\u2019ll take no further part.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat looks like a syndesmosis, he\u2019s grabbing the wrong spot. The ankle isn\u2019t supposed to go that way,\u201d Gerard Healy added on the Fox commentary. <\/p>\n

The loss of Butters compounded into a disastrous evening on the injury front for Port Adelaide. <\/p>\n

By the final siren, the Power only had a solitary fit player on the bench after losing Lachie Jones (ribs) and Mitch Georgiades (concussion) to injury earlier in the match. <\/p>\n

Port fell to a 10.13 (73) to 13.9 (87) loss to St Kilda. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not good news at all. The superstar can hardly put any weight on that ankle. He\u2019s been unbelievable leading the club this year. It\u2019s been a game of carnage and that might be the biggest story of them all,\u201d said Leigh Montagna on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n

Butters\u2019 future has been in discussion as the 25-year-old has been chased by multiple clubs<\/a> in the AFL<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The star midfielder will likely receive the game\u2019s largest ever contract\u00a0and the Western Bulldogs seem to be the front-runner club for Butters<\/a>, so a long-term injury may have Butters signing off his time with Port Adelaide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zak Butters may have played his final game for Port Adelaide after the gun forward went down with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-793957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}